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They assure that, every year on these dates, they receive requests from families seeking school to educate their children in Spanish. They are mainly students who are going to school for the first time but there are also cases of transfers within Spain for work reasons. This last situation is what the

Hablamos Español

association found

when

a week

ago it

received a query from several members of the National Police assigned

to Barcelona. They asked for help so that their children receive classes in Spanish but there is no public educational offer that allows it, only three subsidized schools, which are also bilingual.

"These are not educational centers where the children of police officers can begin the course with instruction in their mother tongue, but schools that, at least, comply with

the sentences that require teaching classes with a minimum of 25% in Spanish

l. Unfortunately, these are schools that these families cannot afford without seeing their de facto, significantly reduced income and some have more than one child of school age, "they assure from the entity.

For this reason, they have presented an instance to the Ministries of Interior and Education so that "the children of officials of the State Security Forces assigned to the Autonomous Communities where there is a co-official language together with Spanish and is used as a vehicular language,

can study their studies in their mother tongue if they so request and are exempt from any type of linguistic immersion

".

However, while the normative changes are being articulated to achieve this request, they demand that "economic compensation be granted" to the families of the agents "to face the expenses derived from the schooling of their children to

the officials subject to forced mobility.

that have been assigned to Autonomous Communities where there is no public offer of school places with the legal minimum of subjects with Spanish as the vehicular language ".

In its petition to the ministries, the entity considers that "the children of members of the National Police and the Civil Guard are suffering very directly the consequences of the transfer of their parents to autonomous communities with a language other than Spanish. This This can be verified by monitoring their academic records and, of course, talking to them and their families. We have evidence that some of these children and young people are taught in several different languages ​​throughout their schooling. there are even testimonies

of families that have decided to separate because of the linguistic problem, with one member of the family remaining in another community, so that their children are not forced into total or partial language immersion

".

Police support

For this reason, they advise these officials to enforce their rights to have their children attend school in Spanish and to use "their mother tongue to ask questions in class and take their exams."

Hablamos Español, which has the support of the

Jupol

National Police

union

and the association of agents of the Civil Guard

Jucil

at their request, considers that "the economic problem these families face should be faced by the Government" since they officials, such as police officers, are subject to "forced mobility".

In this sense, they

recall that there was an agreement between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Education so that the children of the military

had "certain facilities that softened their schooling in communities with more than one official language."

For Hablamos Español "in the autonomous communities with a co-official language, Spanish-speaking students are being linguistically discriminated against in teaching" since nowhere "can we fully educate our children in Spanish." They also believe that "this total or partial forced immersion to which they are subjected makes learning difficult" since "the best way to learn is in the mother tongue". That is why they maintain that "teaching with other languages ​​as vehicles must be carried out with professional monitoring

and must be voluntary, because it is essential that there is a special interest in learning that language

at a high level", simply because of the "added effort" that requires learning a "non-mother tongue".

Thus, they emphasize that the consequences of this situation are students with poor vocabulary and syntax and "undervaluation of the family language at school, as it is banned as a vehicle and, therefore, as a language of culture."

To avoid this situation, they demand that the Government guarantee the study of Spanish as a vehicular language for agents of the State security forces and bodies assigned to communities with a co-official language.

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